Well from the higest what 64GB? Super Talent have gone and made a huge 256GB Solid State Drive!
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Well from the higest what 64GB? Super Talent have gone and made a huge 256GB Solid State Drive!
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Who wants to buy me one?
Oh man.. I didnt see a price in there.. any ideas?
That would be killer!!!
Na, im guessing it will be expensive though. i mean 32GB is like £200
Well, as they become more common, and the size increases, they'll drop in price pretty fast. :)
Look at 1tb hdds.. getting more affordable everyday!
256gb SSD is going for roughly $2500 depending on channel discounts.
Yoiks.. so that's a bit more than I could justify. Hahaha
I was way off on the price. Look what the 128gb's go for on newegg...
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820609259
Dang, can they really justify selling them at that price?? Its not like its brand new technology right? Isn't SSD just basically ram but on a larger scale with a few different things so you can use them as storage?Quote:
Originally Posted by Airbozo
Well, then again, if you bought that many memory sticks, it would be like over five grand...
But still, you could get an insane amount of storage space with regular HDD's for the same price as that fairly small SSD.
So I guess, the real question for me is, why would people buy SSD's right now if they cost that much? Is it really worth it? If it is, then why? and if it isn't, then why can't they lower the price, or why is the price so high?
The high cost is due to the cost of memory and development.
We have a few customers that are using the 32 gb versions of these drives. They use them in systems that have to have fast boot times. Part of the spec was to make sure the system with the SSD's were booted and online before the rest of the systems even posted. This is because the rest of the systems are diskless and need the system with the SSD's to complete their own boot sequnce. We had to tweak the bios to turn everything off that would delay the boot time.
We are currently in talks with one of our vendors to get 3 of the 32 gb ssd's on loan for in house performance testing in stand alone and raid configurations.
if you get them for testing, let us know the results if your allowed, i know how some companys can be with stuff on loan "DOn't you tell anyone now, OR YOU DIE" sort of thing